What do you do for dinner the first night back home?

Pick up Fast Food from our local drive-in we've missed while cruising. :D

We always have pizza on the day we return.

We have usually overindulged so our first meal back from a cruise (or really any vacation) is salmon and roasted veggies. Quick, easy and good.

Fortunately my parents usually invite me over for supper on the day I get back, most of the time its my favorite meal, stewed tomatoes, rice and (don't laugh) fried baloney. I REALLY LOVE RICE. ;)

I haven't got a routine yet. First cruise was December. Went home with noro. Threw up violently. Clear tea and water for dinner. I'll try to establish a routine dinner for next cruise in July. Probably Szechuan from a local eatery. Yum!

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As we sit down at home to eat a fast food extravaganza of deep fried mystery items just picked up returning home from the airport I look back at our cruise and remember a meal or maybe even two that I mentally criticized for being just a little underwhelming. Then, as I remove the fast food delicacies from the paper bag they came in, it hits me. My negative review of that shipboard meal, the one I thought might have been a bit underwhelming, was way off center. When is the next cruise?

We are usually away from home our first night off the ship - so that is a restaurant. Typically first night back home is still a restaurant. We stretch every trip into months so we don't have food at home unless it is in the freezer.

Something take out or toast and cheese if OH makes it!!

House special chow mein* from the best Chinese ( actually he's Vietnamese) takeout in town

*chicken, char sui pork, beef, king prawns, duck .......

We got in too late to eat, fell into bed, got up the next morning for a 4 hour round trip to pick someone up, and came home to BBQ 'd chicken skewers made into souvlaki with watermelon salad and foil bbq'd potatoes!

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Watch the leaves in our salad wilt while we fruitlessly sit and wait for somebody else to come by and put pepper on it.

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for me it depends on when I can back home. Is it after 6pm I order in.

I will just to lazy to do any cooking :D afterall I'm spoiled after a cruise

same goes the last night before the flight out to the cruise.

don't won't to do dishes *lol*

I like to put on a nice dress and pair of heels, go sit down in the dining room and wait for my waiters to take my order. If the service is too slow there, I move to the kitchen table and wait for the waiters in that room to appear. After being really disappointed with the service aboard this ship, we call out to the Chinese restaurant that delivers.

Now that is funny lol

Usually go out to eat and pretend we're still on vacation.

I always clean the fridge and pantry out before we leave so both are barren when we return. Whether we drive or fly, we pick up fast food on the way home and the sadness sets in. Breakfast is the WORST. Sometimes, I'll even go out and pick up breakfast at a fast food restaurant before heading to the grocery store, which is my LEAST favorite chore. I order in pizza that night or we go out and have Mexican. I have to slowly be eased back into real life for the first week.

Take-out Lasagna!

I live about 3 hour from cape liberty, so I bribed my father to drive us and pick us up (as well as puppy-sit, it's a good thing i'm his favorite!). in exchange I promised him that we could stop at my favorite sushi restaurant in NYC for lunch/dinner. by the time we collect the pup and drive home, I assume it will be nap time!

Since we fly business class we get plenty of food on the plane so we just get a pizza delivered if we're still hungry!

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What a good question! There has been times I had 2 days worth of meals in the freezer for us to eat since it takes us that long to catch up on our sleep when we return. For the years I am not organized we eat pizza out the first night or order Stromboli for delivery.

It sure would be nice if someone would stock the refrigerator for us the day we return[emoji8][emoji8]

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We look at the pictures of the food from the ship and eat them!

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One of our neighbors usually throws a welcome home party for us....we are usually still wearing our lanyards.....[emoji23]

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We pick up a few bahn mi sandwiches from this little shop in Atlanta, if their still open or we just dine in somewhere closer to home.